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...enlargements in the business and work of the society, calculating on a membership of one thousand and five per ct. profit on transactions. But it turns out that they have a membership of only 790, with proportionately less transactions, and have retained but three and a half per cent. on the transactions. This, continued through the year, would leave the society with a deficit of about $1500. The whole machinery is at last in admirable working order, but it could just as well do three times the work it now does-and would need to do one-third more work...
...almost a matter of principle to support the society and to buy through it what they could. They knew what Cambridge prices were before the existence of the society, and they realized that if it were to go under the drop of twenty per cent. caused by the society in Cambridge prices would soon be at an end. But the undergraduates of to day, with no experience of the normal Cambridge prices, feel no such sentiment leading them to back the society. The men who count dollars and cents and do not prefer to run up bills are. of course...
Harry Wright predicts that 75 per cent. of the players will next season adopt the flat bat, which is allowable under the present rules...
...only one-third of the year's work in Eist. 13 has been accomplished up to the present time, the examination in that course will last but two hours and count 40 per cent. of the year's mark. The examination will cover everything up to the beginning of Jefferson's second administration...
...will be seen that there has been, for the past ten years, a steady decrease in the number of freshmen rooming in the yard, only broken by the erection of a new building, or the graduation of a very large class; and that whereas in 1874,60 per cent of the freshmen roomed in the yard, but 38 per cent. room there today The reason for this is, we think, the increasing eagerness with which any room in a college building is sought for. It is not an uncommon thing for a man to keep a room during his entire...